gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (03/06/90)
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) wrote: > My B News 2.11.14 croaks on articles with articles that look like > this. Note the > >To: > and >From: > headers. > > I'm converting to C News soon, not sure if this is a bug in B News, > a bug in something else, or just a problem with bit.*. (The article is below...you won't believe it.) This is a bug in the email software that gatewayed this message into the Internet from some X.400 based mail system. In particular, I have seen this cruft on EVERY message that goes through the "attmail" service, even if it is just relaying from a uucp site to another uucp site. When the email happens to gateway into a newsgroup, netnews barfs on it. I complained to attmail but they said "Every one of those headers has a purpose, you are just full of shit." Tell it to the Marines. Note the three different Message-ID's, the four useless version numbers and End-Of headers (haven't they noticed that RFC822 specifies that the order of header lines is not preserved?), and the mangled ">To:" and ">From:" lines instead of To: and From: lines. John > article <DBASE-L%90022818341054@TECMTYVM.BITNET> > 220 0 <DBASE-L%90022818341054@tecmtyvm.bitnet> Article retrieved, head and body follow. > Path: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!MD3B2P!HMACK > Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM.BITNET Gateway > Message-Version: 2 > >To: att!tecmtyvm.bitnet!dbase-l > >From: hmack (Herbert C. Mack x6098) > UA-Content-ID: <PMX-PC-2.0-003901-md3b2p-hmack-3879> > End-of-Header: > Email-Version: 2 > UA-Message-ID: <ATT-2.01-hmack-164> > Phone: 631-6098 > End-of-Protocol: > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 237 > Message-ID: <DBASE-L%90022818341054@TECMTYVM.BITNET> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dbase-l > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 18:33:53 EDT > Reply-To: Discussion on the use of the dBase language and related dialects > <DBASE-L@TECMTYVM> > Sender: Discussion on the use of the dBase language and related dialects > <DBASE-L@TECMTYVM> > From: hmack@MD3B2P.ATT.COM > Subject: dBase Listing > > To Whom It May Concern, > > I am interested in receiving information regarding dbase, fox, and > clipper. My return mail address is as follows: > > EMAIL DBASE -L md3b2p!hmack@att.att.com > > > Thanks, > > Herb > . -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com Boycott the census! The government that invaded Central America does not hesitate to break into "their own" census database to violate your privacy. Maximum penalty for refusing to answer: $100, no jail.
Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (03/06/90)
I don't think there's anything out-and-out illegal about what you quoted in the gatewayed-from-X.400 header. You may not *like* the >To: and >From: headers, but RFC822 says they're OK. (Whether B-news likes them is another matter, but that's a ``small matter of programming.'') The two additional IDs will doubtless be useful to you three years hence when you're debugging your own installation of X.400. Craig